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The Daylife Cookbook is a collection of recipes to help you bootstrap applications that use the Daylife platform (DayPI).
These recipes come from Daylifers and the cookbook community, with entries ranging from sample code to tutorials, half baked ideas, and spotlights of the latest deployments of the DayPI.
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Daylife is a perfect fit for our strategy of presenting the best and most tightly focused content, whether it is produced by us at USA TODAY or anywhere else on the Web. It helps us provide our readers with a full 360-degree view of a given topic, and adds depth and richness to niche areas important to our readers and advertisers.- Jeff Webber, SVP, USAToday.com
You guys have what seems like an amazingly powerful and easy to use API, we're pretty excited about playing with it and possibly integrating it with Hubdub. - Tom Griffith, Hubdub.com
It's amazing how simple this is to integrate into django. When a view is creating a page, it just calls a thin wrapper function that I put around the daypi module. - Bracket Boy
I found the Daylife API for PHP really easy to use, and coded something up quickly for my site, Brooklyn and Beyond - Brooklyn & Beyond
This tool makes it really easy to get a quick look or dive in deep thanks to our partner Daylife, who built a comprehensive service that yields up-to-the-minute results - The Washington Post
I was trying to make it work by using Google News RSS feeds but turned out impossible since they don't organize their data in the feeds. I now know its possible with the Daylife API - Akash Xavier
Pharmalot Gives the Inside Scoop on the Pharmaceutical Industry
Pharmalot is one of the 50 best business blogs writing about pharmaceutical manufacturers’ drug development; mergers and acquisitions; regulatory oversight; safety and pricing controversies, and marketing issues.
Pharmalot used Daylife APIs to introduce a Pharma News section on their blog and build topic pages for the top 14 pharmaceutical companies. They pulled latest articles, developing stories and connections for these companies and provided their users up to date news about them. The connections on the topic pages of these companies introduced users to other companies and people outside of the 14 companies that are creating news in the pharama industry.
Pharmalot also introduced a pharmaceutical industry news ticker on their home page by pulling the latest articles for the 14 companies and merging all the stories for them into a river of news.
Step by Step
Define the application
Pharmalot produced a list of featured pharma companies for their blog. They provided the list to Daylife to ensure that these companies are existing topics in Daylife.
Develop and Deploy using the DayPI
The Pharmalot blog is built using a content management system. The integration with the DayPI was pretty straightforward for the developers at Pharmalot once they had the list of topics.
The topic pages were built using the Topic APIs - topic_getRelatedArticles (for latest headline news on top), topic_getRelatedStories and topic_getRelatedTopics (person and organization topics only).
The news ticker was built using the Search API - search_getRelatedArticles. Pharmalot developers took advantage of the extensible syntax of the Search APIs to support logical operators in the query terms. Pharmalot was innovative to form a general search query by combining the names of the 14 pharmaceutical companies using the boolean OR operator.
Here is a sample query used by Pharmalot to power the news ticker:
"Pfizer" OR "Novartis" OR "AstraZeneca" OR "Merck" OR "Amgen" OR "Bristol-Myers Squibb" OR "GlaxoSmithKline" OR "Sanofi-Aventis" OR "Wyeth" OR "Johnson %26 Johnson" OR "Schering-Plough" OR "Eli Lilly" OR "Roche" OR "Abbott Laboratories" OR "Generics" OR "Pharmaceuticals"
Pharmalot caches the DayPI results for 15 minutes.
